Worker cuts rebar with torch as workers began dismantling Brooklyn St. bridge over I-70. Express lanes were closed for this, next week they will reopen.
Work continues on the Brooklyn St. bridge demolition over I-70. Downtown-bound traffic (Eastbound) has been re-routed onto the Express Lanes. Picture shot about 10 a.m. with moderate traffic flow.
Government officials in St. Louis and neighboring counties said using government facilities to promote such issues is banned as unethical in their areas.
A jurisdictional dispute between building laborers and painters has held up work on the eight-lane, 2165-foot-long deck of the problem-plagued Poplar Street Bridge for the last five weeks.
Construction of east approach to the Poplar Street Bridge is progressing despite numerous delays on the bridge project. In the above picture, looking south from an overpass over South Fourth street, East St. Louis, the long approach swings to the right to connect with the bridge super-structure.
At top is a railroad approach to McArthur Bridge. In foreground are approaches of the westbound lanes to Poplar Street Bridge as seen from the East Side. The Poplar Street Bridge was dedicated Thursday as the Bernard F. Dickmann Gateway Bridge.
Jack B. Haydon, left, Illinois resident engineer, and Kurt A. Keller, resident engineer for Missouri, shake hands Thursday on the Poplar Street Bridge minutes before it was opened.